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How do I delete DSL from flash drive?

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Sooo ... I want to reclaim my 256MB flash drive instead of it only being 50MB. I had Damn Small Linux on there and it booted fine. I know only like to use Ubuntu for my Linux needs.

I google'd on how to remove it and some forum said to use fdisk or cfdisk. I ran cfdisk in the terminal and that only showed my internal hard drive and I believe a 2xxMB size partition. I'll have to check that out. For fdisk, I had to choose the correct mount or whatever and I read it is only for advanced users, that is not me.

So, can somebody tell me exactly how to delete the partition? I can't do it in windows because it's a "linux partition" or something.

Much thanks. <3
post #2 of 3
fire up gparted (install it if you dont have it installed yet).

pic /dev/sda from the drop-down menu (or whatever it mounts as) to select your flash drive

go to partition > unmount.

now you can delete it and craete a new FAT32 partition to reclaim your drive.
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Thanks abf <3 I think I used that program before when I tried to change around the partitions on my hard drive. I forgot the program name lol. Now I'll know the name of it.

Actually, I figured out cfdisk. I only saw my hard drive so I typed in "/media/NEW VOLUME" and it popped up. I deleted the Linux partition and created a new one out of the free space. I set it as "Primary" and it made the filesystem "Linux." I changed the filesystem to "WIN95 FAT32," there were so many different file systems, wow! I then wrote the partition table ( I didn't do this the first time and it didn't change anything ) Finally, I booted into XP and it was still 50MB! I then did the ol' right click -> Format, and it came up as 243MB instead of 50MB! I formatted it, and it now shows up as 243MB!

I <3 Linux. I should really switch back to it as my main OS.
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